Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1962-12-10
Scope and Contents
(Illuminated Books of Hours from Rouen, Limoges and Lyons; A fourteenth-century Breviary from Penwortham, Lancashire; the Psalter of the Ashley family, of Ruthland; an Office of the Dead apparently from the library of Robert Holme, prior of Haverholme; the Psalter of the Bussy family of Hougham, Co. Linics., and other manuscripts relating to Lincolnshire. Pseudo-Bonaventura's Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesus Christ, in the English translation of Nicholas Love, prior of Mount Grace, the copy belonging to the Countess of Kent, a widow of the founder of Mount Grace; a contemporary compilation of the privileges of English merchants in the Netherlands, c. 1481; and Henry the VIII's illuminated grant of monastic lands in Westmoreland to Christopher Crackanthorpe. An eleventh century codex of St. Augustine from the Michelsberg Abbey in Bamberg; an eleventh century St. Jerome; and an early manuscript of the Italian poetry of Chariteo, from the Library of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria.)
Dates
- created: 1962-12-10
Creator
- From the Collection: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby's (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
From the Collection: 621 Volumes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository
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